From protest to resistance:
a radical look at the FTAA
(Free Trade Area of the Americas)

Recording of the event is now available for download at http://www.radio4all.net/proginfo.php?id=2816

Speakers were:

• George, Anti-Racist Action (Toronto)
• Fernando Hernandez, Food for Chiapas (Toronto)
• Sue Collis, Ontario Coalition Against Poverty, OCAP (Toronto)
• Pauline Hwang, Colours of Resistance (Montreal)
• Helene Vallieres, Summit of the Americas Welcoming Committee, CASA (Quebec City)
• Jaggi Singh, The Anti-Capitalist Convergence (CLAC) and Colours of Resistance (Montreal)
• Lorenzo Komboa Ervin, Former Black Panther and Political Prisoner, Founder of the Black Autonomy Network Of Community Organizers and author of "Anarchism and Black Revolution" (Kalamazoo, Michigan)

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Past flyer about the event:

This April 20-22, 2001 Quebec City will be hosting the Summit of the
Americas where the rulers of the 34 countries of North and South America
(except Cuba) will be gathering for cocktails, photo ops, and backroom
deals designed to extend the rich's robbery of the indigenous, poor and
working people of the Americas through the FTAA.

Thousands of people from all over North and South America will be
converging in Quebec City to oppose and disrupt the Summit as well as
present a sane worldview where the world's wealth is used to provide for
the world's people who produce it.

There are many organizing efforts against the FTAA underway. We represent (part of) the anti-authoritarian tendencies that see the FTAA as a symptom of a failed system of economic organization, namely capitalism. We also represent a desire to move from "days of action" to sustained
community-based resistance and finally to break out of failed modes of
symbolic protest to serious, uncompromising opposition.

Speakers:

- Helene Vallieres, Summit of the Americas Welcoming Committee, CASA
(Quebec City)

- Jaggi Singh, The Anti-Capitalist Convergence (CLAC) and Colours of
Resistance (Montreal)

- Lorenzo Komboa Ervin, Former Black Panther and Political Prisoner,
Founder of the Black Autonomy Network Of Community Organizers and author of "Anarchism and Black Revolution" (Kalamazoo, Michigan)

- Fernando, Food for Chiapas (Toronto)

- Sue Collis, Ontario Coalition Against Poverty, OCAP (Toronto)

- Pauline Hwang, Colours of Resistance (Montreal)

- Steve Swart, Active Transformation (Lansing, Michigan)

and Anti-Racist Action Toronto

Videos: Canadian Premiere of "Revolting in Prague" (undercurrents) as well
as, "Fighting to win! OCAP on June 15th" (TVAC) and "Resist FTAA!" (TVAC),

Childcare provided with prior notice. Please call 416.631.8835

For more information on radical organizing against the FTAA please
contact:

Anti-Racist Action Toronto
P.O. Box 291, Station B.
Toronto ON M5T 2T2
ara@web.net
416.631.8835
http://www.web.net/~ara

Colours of Resistance
http://www.tao.ca/~colours
colours@tao.ca

The Anti-Capitalist Convergence, Montreal (CLAC)
e-mail: clac@tao.ca
web: http://www.quebec2001.net
tel: +1 514 409-2049
post: 2035, St-Laurent Boulevard, 2nd floor
Montreal, Quebec H2X 2T3 CANADA

Summit of The Americas Welcoming Committee (CASA), Quebec City
email: la_casa2001@hotmail.com